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Attractive people, on average, think less and are more sensitive to emotion including conscience. This makes them more likely to be good and less likely to be g
by thribbler 16y ago
Attractive people, on average, think less and are more sensitive to emotion including conscience. This makes them more likely to be good and less likely to be guilty of crime.
Thinking draws resources away from the body and thus indirectly affects things like movement, grace and growth.
Hence the medieval law of combat: a good knight could not lose against a bad knight.
Also the Emperor Palpatine's skin problems, ugly stepmothers in fairy tales, etc.
Also George Orwell's comment "At age 50, every man has the face he deserves."
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- mburney 16y agoNot sure why this comment was downvoted so much, it does a good job of summarizing an ancient world view which goes against our current scientific one. The ancient idea being that one's virtue is connected to one's vitality. Topics like virtue, nobility, the body/soul have been misunderstood by modern science; these problems can't be solved with empirical evidence + deductive logic. The ancients thought about these things in a radically different way from us because they accepted that higher-level values are a matter of interpretation to be distinguished from lower-level factual (scientific) things.